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In the 90ies Linux could be the guest on MS-DOS/Windows' native filesystem (UMSDOS). In the 20ies, Windows can be the guest on one of Linux' native filesystems
by microtonal 3y ago
In the 90ies Linux could be the guest on MS-DOS/Windows' native filesystem (UMSDOS). In the 20ies, Windows can be the guest on one of Linux' native filesystems (BTRFS).
https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/ https://www.lilysthings.org/blog/windows-on-btrfs/
Also, semi-related, over twenty years ago you could run Windows 9x on Linux extremely fast without a VM:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001017153413/http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin/index.php https://web.archive.org/web/20001017153413/http://www.netrav...
The technology was based on SCO Merge and required a small kernel patch.
https://github.com/xiphux/xx-sources/blob/0d28a7337aeef2d46d22c3f8837d65bc792ae7a6/2.6.7-xx4/broken-out/p00198_Kernel-Win4Lin3-2.6.6.patch#L28 https://github.com/xiphux/xx-sources/blob/0d28a7337aeef2d46d...